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[Written upside down at the top of page 1]
Tell Mrs B I did not have time
today to write her will do so soon [as]
Mr Ashe makes a short stay.
Head Quarters
Nov. 25th,/72
My Darling Son
Your welcome letter of the 22nd that came
to land last evening contents all noted, am glad
you will be in funds trust there will be no
mistake or further delay. In regard to the
Clear Creek interest it has turned out just as
I long hadve long expected it would or for some time past
Trueheart & Andrews have been steadily at
work getting the matter into their own hands
and weaving a net to keep all others our of
ever realizing anything unless they can pay
them about the price they could sell at to any
one else. I see no alternative now but
to sell to them. I will see further however
about it and let you know my views
I will be in Houston soon, by or before the mid-
dle of December as I risk to make the long
promised visit to Mrs. Bryan & return to the
Burg by Christmas to eat dinner with Mr.
and Mrs Sam Ashe, and to visit Sam & Jennie
while there. Tell Mrs. B I anticipate much
pleasure in visiting her as there are but few
now of the old tried veterans of other days
left it is a treat to meet and talk over old
times with one. And then too I am so constituted that
I cannot take real pleasure in the society of strangers. I
have no time & I fear less taste for cultivating
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[written upside down along top of page 2]
I am glad Mary B is gone to Baltimore as she will enjoy
it much & Mrs. B will be so happy in being able to con-
tribute so largely to her two oldest childrens pleasure
and improvement. May Heaven bless her all though
life with plenty.
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new friendships, but love dearly to meet old
tried friends. Tell Mrs B I have not been waiting
for a formal invitation, from her, other causes
have kept me away. Remember me kindly to her
& the little girls also Mrs. Styles if you should see
her betwen now & my coming
I wish to make a stop at the Burg of a few days
before going up to Houston. You may send me
by Mr. Ashe $20 dollars as I will not have any
to go on after getting there. I owe a doctors bill there
of about $20 dollars I wish to pay if Sam is in
need of his money he settled it long since with
Jourden. I have selected all the jour
-als laws &c &c and can bring them up
when I come. There are other book[s] here I wish
you to have as they are of no use to any one
else & might be of some to you if of no other
they would serve "to fill up," make a show you
know, which with more than half this little
wooden world of our goes a long way, but of others
beside the ones you have written for I will
get you to select yourself
Sallie is not very
well today but nothing serious. May heavens best
blessings guide you in your struggles for honorable
success is this the daily prayer of your loving Mother